This resurgence is also part of the natural cycle of food trends.

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And while you won't find the Jetson's Food-A-Rac-A-Cycle in stores, the television dinner meant that by 1962, a future where machines produced a variety of tasty food at the push of a button seemed just around the corner.

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This is a terrible, greedy, vicious cycle, with no regard to the health of the food produced, or the land being used to produce it.

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Every time we turn on a tap or buy food we are responsible for a small element of the much larger water management cycle.

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Another: Rising incomes may cause food prices to increase still faster than average earnings driving us into a vicious cycle.

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The cycle goes on and the levels of toxicity increases until you get to the top of the food chain with pelagic fish such as swordfish that end up on our dinner plate.

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Andy Rothman , the China Macro Strategist for CLSA Asia-Pacific Markets, believes that China is near the peak in food-price inflation and close to the peak in the overall rise in the Consumer Price Index for this cycle.

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